PC Firm's Founder Says Going Private
Will 'Speed' Turnaround Effort

Michael Dell is making himself a pitchman for the $24.4 billion deal he says is needed to salvage Dell Inc.

The computer maker's chief executive has barely talked publicly about the proposed deal struck in February to take Dell private—a controversial transaction that has become in part a referendum on Mr. Dell's stewardship of the company he founded nearly 30 years ago.